compounding
/kəmpˈaʊndɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.09 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An accumulation of compound interest.
noun
The use of steam more than once in a steam engine or turbine, in additional low-pressure cylinders etc.
Example Sentences
- "the number of compoundings per year"
- "Arthur Pendennis, his son, was eight years old at the time of this event, so that it is no wonder that the latter, who left Bath and the surgery so young, should forget the existence of such a place almost entirely, and that his father’s hands had ever been dirtied by the compounding of odious pills, or the preparation of filthy plasters"
- "Superheating, first introduced with the "Abs", stopped further development in compounding, in New Zealand as elsewhere, and the "Abs" succeeded in dealing with the growing traffic unaided for more than a decade."